Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy

AM FRS(N) BSc(Med) MB BS PhD DSc FRACP FRCP(A) FRCP(C))

Foundation Professor Pathology, Medical School, Newcastle; 

Began Clinical Immunology in Australia as a discipline (with two others); Chief College examiner in Clinical Immunology; established Clinical Immunology Departments in McMaster University (Canada), RPAH Sydney, and John Hunter Hospital Newcastle. Continues in practise.

Research: Mucosal Immunology- established Newcastle Mucosal Immunology Group. Awarded only DSc by University of Newcastle (over 300 publications). Developed idea of mucosal resilience and immunobiotics.

Dr Melissa McCann

MBBS, FRACGP, Grad Cert Allergic Disease

Dr Melissa McCann is a general practitioner based in the Whitsundays with a special interest in Covid 19 vaccine injuries, and her advocacy work for vaccine injured and bereaved persons has culminated in a class action recently filed in the Federal Court.

Dr McCann started as a Pharmacist working on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, before commencing postgraduate medical education in Western Australia. Since completing her medical training, Dr McCann has worked in Albany and Nicol Bay Hospitals in WA, as well as the remote clinic of Onslow in WA via light aeroplane access. She then relocated to the Sunshine Coast in QLD with her husband and three children.

Dr McCann completed her General Practice fellowship training in Gympie QLD, and finally relocated to the Whitsundays. Dr McCann has built a reputation as a caring and competent general practitioner in each Practice she has worked.  Dr McCann was the first GP to provide services at Whitsunday Family Practice in 2015.

Dr Andrew McIntyre

GASTROENTEROLOGIST MBBS FRACP

Dr McIntyre is a Consultant Gastroenterologist who has worked on the Sunshine Coast from 1990 up until December 2021 when he was mandated out of practice. He established and runs a busy day surgery, Buderim Gastroenterology Centre - a place he was unable to enter while vaccine mandates were being enforced by the government. He is still unable to enter public and private hospitals as a doctor to provide inpatient care.